postal order

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. money order.

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postal order British  

noun

1. a written order for the payment of a sum of money, to a named payee, obtainable and payable at a post office

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Etymology

Origin of postal order

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The postal order would mean I had no bus fare, that I would have to walk to and from school for a week, but I didn’t care.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Did Ronnie, a 14-year-old cadet, steal a postal order for five shillings, forge a signature and deserve expulsion from naval college?

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013

Then she mails them off with a postal order for a few shillings to cover her previous week's bet.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1908 a Naval College cadet, 13, was dismissed on the charge of stealing a five-shilling postal order.

From Time Magazine Archive

You were treasurer, and cannot produce the funds; 283 you were seen buying a postal order, and you received a handsome fountain pen by post.”

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol